Valantis Fyndanis

• Martinez-Ferreiro, Silvia; Arslan, Seckin; Fyndanis, Valantis; Howard, David; Kuvač Kraljević, Jelena & Matić Škorić, Ana [Show all 14 contributors for this article] (2024). Guidelines and recommendations for cross-linguistic aphasia assessment: A review of 10 years of Comprehensive Aphasia Test adaptations . Aphasiology. ISSN 0268-7038. doi: 10.1080/02687038.2024.2343456. Show summary

  Background. Standardised aphasia assessment tools may not always be available in a variety of languages, making it difficult for speech and language therapists to appropriately assess and diagnose aphasia in speakers of those languages. In 2013, Working Group 2(WG2) Aphasia Assessment & Outcomes, part of the Collaboration of Aphasia Trialists network, was formed with the purpose of developing reliable and valid aphasia assessment tools and their cross-linguistic adaptations. Over the past decade, WG2 has undertaken important adaptation projects, including the cross-linguistic adaptation of the Comprehensive Aphasia Test (CAT; Swinburn et al., 2004). Aims. This review aims to achieve three objectives: (a) describe the adaptation procedure of the CAT within WG2, (b) summarise common guidelines and recommendations for future adaptations, and (c) provide concrete solutions for specific cross-linguistic and cross-cultural challenges encountered during the adaptation and validation procedures of the CAT. Methods. Between 2013 and 2023, WG2 emplo´yed a committee approach and fully adapted the CAT into Catalan, Croatian, Dutch, French, Hungarian, Norwegian, Spanish, and Turkish. Further adaptations are in progress for Arabic (Moroccan), Basque, Cantonese Chinese, German, Greek, Icelandic, Lithuanian, Serbian, Slovenian and Swedish. The review comprehensively addresses the linguistic/cultural adaptation and validation procedure for the three components of the battery: the Cognitive screening, the Language battery and the Aphasia Impact Questionnaire. Critical outcomes and some best practice recommendations from psychometric norming and piloting are also provided. Outcomes and results. This review builds on prior work (Fyndanis et al., 2017) and serves as a practical guide for researchers and clinicians undertaking cross-linguistic adaptations of the CAT, with specific conclusions and recommendations drawn from WG2's adaptations in 19 languages with diverse typological properties. Building on the work exemplified in this paper, future initiatives can direct their efforts towards adapting the CAT for PWA from different linguistic backgrounds for whom validated assessment instruments may be unavailable. This can be achieved through rigorous systematic adaptation procedures for the establishment of comparable language versions of this tool, valuable for various clinical applications. Such endeavours have the potential to provide access to valuable shared datasets for their use across international aphasia trials, and for comparable clinical work within the aphasiology community.

• Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Lundquist, Björn; Rodina, Yulia; Tengesdal, Eirik; Kaldhol, Nina Hagen & Türker, Emel [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2024). Cross-linguistic effects in grammatical gender assignment and predictive processing in L1 Greek, L1 Russian, and L1 Turkish speakers of Norwegian as a second language. Second Language Research. ISSN 0267-6583. doi: 10.1177/02676583241227709. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The present study examines grammatical gender knowledge in offline production (gender marking on indefinite articles) and online gender processing (visual world paradigm) in adult second language (L2) learners of Norwegian with three different first languages (L1s): Greek, Russian, and Turkish. In particular, it investigates the role of the following factors: (1) presence vs. absence of grammatical gender in L1 (Norwegian, Greek and Russian have gender, whereas Turkish does not), (2) lexical gender congruency, (3) structural similarity between L1 and L2 in the realization of gender, and (4) proficiency in L2. In offline production, no difference was found between the three L2 groups: they all overused the default gender (masculine). However, L1 effects were observed in the eye-tracking task, where the high-proficiency L1 Greek and L1 Russian speakers showed earlier and more prominent signs of predictive gender processing compared to the high-proficiency L1 Turkish speakers. There were no effects of lexical gender congruency or structural similarity. This suggests that, when it comes to predictive gender processing, what matters is proficiency and the presence vs. absence of grammatical gender in the L1. We interpret the findings in the context of current approaches to predictive processing emphasizing the role of cue reliability and utility.

• Lehtonen, Minna; Fyndanis, Valantis & Jylkkä, Jussi (2023). The relationship between bilingual language use and executive functions. Nature Reviews Psychology. 2(6), p. 360–373. doi: 10.1038/s44159-023-00178-9.
• Fyndanis, Valantis; Cameron, Sarah; Hansen, Pernille; Norvik, Monica I. & Simonsen, Hanne Gram (2022). Multilingualism and verbal short-term/working memory: Evidence from academics. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. ISSN 1366-7289. 26(3), p. 490–503. doi: 10.1017/S1366728922000621. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  To date, the evidence regarding the effect of bilingualism/multilingualism on short-term memory (STM) and working memory (WM) capacity is inconclusive. This study investigates whether multilingualism has a positive effect on the verbal STM and WM capacity of neurotypical middle-aged and older individuals. Eighty-two L1-Norwegian sequential bilingual/ multilingual academics were tested with tasks measuring verbal STM/WM capacity. Degree of bilingualism/multilingualism for each participant was estimated based on a comprehensive questionnaire. Different measures of bilingualism/multilingualism were used. Data on potentially influencing non-linguistic factors were also collected. Correlation and regression analyses showed that multilingualism impacts both verbal STM and verbal WM. In particular, all analyses showed that number of known foreign languages was the strongest predictor of verbal STM and WM capacity. The results are discussed in light of recent studies on the impact of bilingualism on STM/WM and

• Fyndanis, Valantis; Masoura, Elvira; Malefaki, Sonia; Chatziadamou, Efpraxia; Dosi, Ifigeneia & Caplan, David (2022). The Role of Working Memory, Short-Term Memory, Speed of Processing, Education, and Locality in Verb-Related Morphosyntactic Production: Evidence From Greek. Frontiers in Psychology. ISSN 1664-1078. 13. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.851440. Full text in Research Archive
• Themistocleous, Charalambos; Fyndanis, Valantis & Tsapkini, Kyrana (2022). Sonorant spectra and coarticulation distinguish speakers with different dialects. Speech Communication. ISSN 0167-6393. 142, p. 1–14. doi: 10.1016/j.specom.2022.06.002.
• Fyndanis, Valantis; Miceli, Gabriele; Capasso, Rita; Killmer, Helene; Malefaki, Sonia & Grohmann, Kleanthes K. (2022). Production of Sentential Negation in German and Italian Non-fluent Aphasia. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. ISSN 0090-6905. doi: 10.1007/s10936-022-09894-4. Full text in Research Archive
• Fyndanis, Valantis & Lehtonen, Minna (2021). Pathological language-switching/mixing and its relationship to domain-general cognitive control. In Røyneland, Unn & Blackwood, Robert (Ed.), Multilingualism across the Lifespan. Routledge. ISSN 9781003125815. doi: 10.4324/9781003125815. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This innovative collection examines key questions on language diversity and multilingualism running through contemporary debates in psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics. Reinforcing interdisciplinary conversations on these themes, each chapter is co-authored by two different researchers, often those who have not written together before. The combined effect is a volume showcasing unique and dynamic perspectives on such topics as multilingualism across the lifespan, bilingual acquisition, family language policy, language and ageing, language shift, language and identity, and multilingualism and language impairment. The book builds on Elizabeth Lanza’s pioneering work on multilingualism across the lifespan, bringing together cutting-edge research exploring multilingualism as an evolving phenomenon at landmarks in individuals’, families’, and communities’ lives.　Taken together, the book offers a rich portrait of the different facets of multilingualism as a lived reality for individuals, families, and communities. This ground-breaking volume will be of particular interest to students and scholars in multilingualism, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, and psycholinguistics.

• Garraffa, Maria & Fyndanis, Valantis (2020). Linguistic theory and aphasia: An overview. Aphasiology. ISSN 0268-7038. 34, p. 905–926. doi: 10.1080/02687038.2020.1770196. Full text in Research Archive
• Fyndanis, Valantis; Messinis, Lambros; Nasios, Grigorios; Dardiotis, Efthymios; Martzoukou, Maria & Pitopoulou, Maria [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2020). Impaired Verb-Related Morphosyntactic Production in Multiple Sclerosis: Evidence From Greek. Frontiers in Psychology. ISSN 1664-1078. 11. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.02051. Full text in Research Archive
• Fyndanis, Valantis (2019). Verbs. In Damico, Jack S. & Ball, Martin J. (Ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Human Communication Sciences and Disorders. Sage Publications. ISSN 9781483380834. p. 2041–2045.
• Boumeester, Marlijne; Michel, Marije C & Fyndanis, Valantis (2019). Sequential multilingualism and cognitive abilities: Preliminary data on the contribution of language proficiency and use in different modalities. Behavioral Sciences. ISSN 2076-328X. 9(9). doi: 10.3390/bs9090092. Full text in Research Archive
• Fyndanis, Valantis & Themistocleous, Charalambos (2019). Are there prototypical associations between time frames and aspectual values? Evidence from Greek aphasia and healthy ageing. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics. ISSN 0269-9206. 33(1-2), p. 191–217. doi: 10.1080/02699206.2018.1480657. Full text in Research Archive
• Fyndanis, Valantis; Arcara, Giorgio; Capasso, Rita; Christidoue, Paraskevi; De Pellegrin, Serena & Gandolfi, Marialuisa [Show all 12 contributors for this article] (2018). Time reference in nonfluent and fluent aphasia: a cross-linguistic test of the PAst DIscourse LInking Hypothesis. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics. ISSN 0269-9206. 32(9), p. 823–843. doi: 10.1080/02699206.2018.1445291. Full text in Research Archive
• Fyndanis, Valantis; Arcara, Giorgio; Christidou, Paraskevi & Caplan, David (2018). Morphosyntactic Production and Verbal Working Memory: Evidence From Greek Aphasia and Healthy Aging. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research. ISSN 1092-4388. 61(5), p. 1171–1187. doi: 10.1044/2018_JSLHR-L-17-0103. Full text in Research Archive
• Fyndanis, Valantis; Arfani, Dimitra; Varlokosta, Spyridoula; Burgio, Francesca; Maculan, Anna & Miceli, Gabriele [Show all 11 contributors for this article] (2018). Morphosyntactic production in Greek- and Italian-speaking individuals with probable Alzheimer’s disease: Evidence from subject-verb agreement, tense/time reference, and mood. Aphasiology. ISSN 0268-7038. 32(1), p. 61–87. doi: 10.1080/02687038.2017.1358352. Full text in Research Archive
• Fyndanis, Valantis; Lind, Marianne; Varlokosta, Spyridoula; Kambanaros, Maria; Soroli, Efstathia & Ceder, Klaudia [Show all 18 contributors for this article] (2017). Cross-linguistic adaptations of The Comprehensive Aphasia Test: Challenges and solutions. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics. ISSN 0269-9206. 31(7-9), p. 697–710. doi: 10.1080/02699206.2017.1310299. Full text in Research Archive
• Rofes, Adrià; Zakariás, Lilla; Ceder, Klaudia; Lind, Marianne; Blom Johansson, Monica & de Aguiar, Vânia [Show all 24 contributors for this article] (2017). Imageability ratings across languages. Behavior Research Methods. ISSN 1554-351X. Published ahead of print, p. 1–11. doi: 10.3758/s13428-017-0936-0. Full text in Research Archive
• Nerantzini, Michaela; Fyndanis, Valantis; Terzi, Arhonto & Varlokosta, Spyridoula (2015). Case and agreement in Greek aphasia. Evidence from comprehension. Stem-, spraak- en taalpathologie. ISSN 0924-7025. 20, p. 95–97.

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• de Bot, Kees; Plejert, Charlotta; Simonsen, Hanne Gram; Fyndanis, Valantis; Hansen, Pernille & Norvik, Monica I. [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2020). Multilingualism and ageing. An Overview. Brill Academic Publishers. ISBN 978-90-04-44539-0. 98 p. Show summary

  This publication provides an overview of research on a large range of topics relating to language processing and language use from a life-span perspective. It is unique in covering and combining psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic approaches, discussing questions such as: Is it beneficial to speak more than one language when growing old? How are languages processed in multilingual persons, and how does this change over time? What happens to language and communication in multilingual aphasia or dementia? How is multilingual ageing portrayed in the media? It is a joint, cross-disciplinary venture of researchers from the Centre for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan at The University of Oslo and the editors of this publication.

• Varlokosta, Spyridoula; Stamouli, Spyridoula; Karasimos, Athanasios; Markopoulos, Georgios; Kakavoulia, Maria & Nerantzini, Michaela [Show all 10 contributors for this article] (2016). A Greek Corpus of Aphasic Discourse: Collection, Transcription, and Annotation Specifications. Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings. ISBN 978-91-7685-730-4. 8 p.

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• Lundquist, Björn; Rodina, Yulia; Tengesdal, Eirik; Kaldhol, Nina Hagen; Türker, Emel & Fyndanis, Valantis (2024). Cross-linguistic effects in grammatical gender assignment and predictive processing in L1 Greek, L1 Russian, and L1 Turkish speakers of Norwegian as a second language.
• Lundquist, Björn; Tengesdal, Eirik; Rodina, Yulia; Kaldhol, Nina Hagen; Fyndanis, Valantis & Türker, Emel (2024). Replication data for: Cross-linguistic effects in grammatical gender assignment and predictive processing in L1 Greek, L1 Russian, and L1 Turkish speakers of Norwegian as a second language.
• Pourquie, Marie; Arslan, Seckin; Tokac-Scheffer, Dilara; Grima, Ritienne; Fyndanis, Valantis & Kambanaros, Maria [Show all 14 contributors for this article] (2023). Global perspectives on speech and language therapy training and practices for multilingual people with aphasia THE "MAP" SURVEY: Working with bi/multilingual persons with aphasia: common practices and current challenges for SLTs.
• Fyndanis, Valantis (2023). Multilingualism and verbal short-term/working memory: Evidence from academics.
• Fyndanis, Valantis (2023). Exploring the relationship between multilingualism and verbal short-term/working memory: Evidence from academia.
• Fyndanis, Valantis (2023). Multilingualism and verbal short-term/working memory: Evidence from university professors and researchers.
• Fyndanis, Valantis; Cameron, Sarah; Arcara, Giorgio; Kaldhol, Nina Hagen; Norvik, Monica I. & Simonsen, Hanne Gram (2023). Multilingualism does not affect time reference production in L1: Evidence from academics.
• Pourquie, Marie; Seçkin, Tokaç-Scheffer; Dilara, Susan; Grima, Ritienne; Fyndanis, Valantis & Taiebine, Mohamed (2023). Global perspectives on speech and language therapy training and practices for multilingual people with aphasia.
• Soilemezidi, Marielena; Fyndanis, Valantis & Chrisikopoulou, Marina (2023). Independent effects of age, education, verbal working memory, locality and morphosyntactic category on verb-related morphosyntactic production: Evidence from healthy aging.
• Fyndanis, Valantis (2023). The relationship between multilingualism and cognitive capacities: Evidence from neurotypical middle-aged and older academics.
• Fyndanis, Valantis (2023). Machine Learning Aphasia.
• Fyndanis, Valantis; Buivolova, Olga; Soilemezidi, Marielena; Kalpakidi, Theodora; Varlokosta, Spyridoula & Dragoy, Olga (2023). Time reference and aspect in Greek and Russian stroke-induced aphasia.
• Norvik, Monica I. ; Köder, Franziska Maria; Simonsen, Hanne Gram; Hansen, Pernille; Landmark, Anne Marie Dalby & Svennevig, Jan [Show all 10 contributors for this article] (2023). Multilingualism and language disorders.
• Köder, Franziska Maria; Kyriacou, Marianna; Lehtonen, Minna; García González, Elisabet ; Fyndanis, Valantis & Gardner, Qingyuan Liu (2023). Language and cognitive processes in the multilingual brain.
• Fyndanis, Valantis; Cameron, Sarah; Arcara, Giorgio; Kaldhol, Nina Hagen; Norvik, Monica I. & Simonsen, Hanne Gram (2023). Multilingualism does not affect time reference production in L1: Evidence from academics.
• Lundquist, Bjørn; Rodina, Yulia; Tengesdal, Eirik; Fyndanis, Valantis; Kaldhol, Nina Hagen & Türker, Emel (2022). Andrespråkstilegnelse og prosessering av genus i norsk .
• Fyndanis, Valantis (2022). Teasing apart tense-related encoding and retrieval deficits in aphasia.
• Fyndanis, Valantis; Soilemezidi, Marielena & Kalpakidi, Theodora (2022). Impaired production of time reference in aphasia: Disentangling encoding from retrieval deficits.
• Fyndanis, Valantis; Masoura, Elvira; Chatziadamou, Εfpraxia; Dosi, Ifigeneia; Malefaki, Sonia & Caplan, David (2022). The role of working memory, short-term memory, speed of processing, and education in verb-related morphosyntactic production: Evidence from Greek.
• Fyndanis, Valantis; Buivolova, Olga; Soilemezidi, Marielena; Kalpakidi, Theodora & Dragoy, Olga (2022). Teasing apart tense-related encoding and retrieval deficits in aphasia.
• Fyndanis, Valantis (2022). Neurogenic Disorders and morphosyntactic deficits: The role of cognitive capacities and education.
• Pourquie, Marie; Arslan, Seçkin; Grima, Ritienne; Fyndanis, Valantis; Kambanaros, Maria & Martinez-Ferreiro, Silvia [Show all 12 contributors for this article] (2022). The “MAP” survey: an international investigation of SLPs’ training and working practices to assess and treat plurilingual people with aphasia.
• Fyndanis, Valantis; Cameron, Sarah; Arcara, Giorgio; Kaldhol, Nina Hagen; Norvik, Monica I. & Simonsen, Hanne Gram (2022). Bilingualism/Multilingualism does not affect production of time reference in L1: Evidence from Norwegian academics.
• Fyndanis, Valantis; Cameron, Sarah; Hansen, Pernille; Norvik, Monica I. & Simonsen, Hanne Gram (2022). Sequential multilingualism and verbal short-term/working memory: Evidence from academics.
• Rodina, Yulia; Lundquist, Bjørn; Fyndanis, Valantis; Tengesdal, Eirik; Kaldhol, Nina Hagen & Türker, Emel (2022). Second language acquisition and language processing: Grammatical gender in Norwegian.
• Fyndanis, Valantis; Haman, Ewa; Łuniewska, Magdalena & Simonsen, Hanne Gram (2021). Meeting a need for tools: Experiences from two international network.
• Rodina, Yulia; Fyndanis, Valantis; Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Lundquist, Bjørn; Kaldhol, Nina Hagen & Tengesdal, Eirik [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2021). Second language acquisition and language processing: Grammatical gender in Norwegian.
• Fyndanis, Valantis; Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Kaldhol, Nina Hagen; Lundquist, Bjørn; Rodina, Yulia & Rødvand, Linn Iren Sjånes [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2020). Predictive gender processing in L2 adult learners of Norwegian: Effects of L1 (Greek, Russian, Turkish), syntactic and lexical congruency.
• Fyndanis, Valantis; Capasso, Rita; Killmer, Helene; Malefaki, Sonia; Miceli, Gabriele & Grohmann, Kleanthes (2020). Sentential negation in German and Italian agrammatic aphasia.
• Fyndanis, Valantis; Haman, Ewa; Hansen, Pernille; Luniewska, Magdalena; Norvik, Monica I. & Simonsen, Hanne Gram (2020). Meeting a need for tools: Experiences from two international networks.
• Fyndanis, Valantis & Cameron, Sarah Prydz (2019). Cognitive testing: When is it non-verbal?
• Fyndanis, Valantis (2019). Morphosyntactic production in agrammatic aphasia: A cross-linguistic machine learning approach.
• Fyndanis, Valantis (2019). Morphosyntactic production in agrammatic aphasia: A cross-linguistic machine learning approach.
• Masoura, E.; Chatziadamou, E.; Dosi, G. & Fyndanis, Valantis (2019). The role of short-term memory and working memory in verb-related morphosyntactic production.
• Fyndanis, Valantis; Messinis, Lambros; Nasios, Grigorios; Dardiotis, Efthimios; Martzoukou, Maria & Pitopoulou, Maria [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2019). Impaired verb-related morphosyntactic production in Multiple Sclerosis: Evidence from Greek.
• Fyndanis, Valantis; Messinis, Lambros; Nasios, Grigorios; Dardiotis, Efthymios; Martzoukou, Maria & Pitopoulou, Maria [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2019). Impaired verb-related morphosyntactic production in Multiple Sclerosis: Evidence from Greek. Stem-, spraak- en taalpathologie. ISSN 0924-7025. 24, p. 121–124.
• Lundquist, Bjørn; Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Fyndanis, Valantis; Rodina, Yulia; Tengesdal, Eirik & Kaldhol, Nina Hagen [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2019). Inter-language gender congruency has facilitative effects on L2 production and comprehension of grammatical gender, but only for high-proficient speakers of structurally similar languages.
• Rodina, Yulia; Fyndanis, Valantis; Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Kaldhol, Nina Hagen; Lundquist, Bjørn & Tengesdal, Eirik [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2019). Grammatical gender processing in Russian second language learners of Norwegian.
• Terzi, Arhonto; Barampati, Eleni & Fyndanis, Valantis (2019). Syntactic comprehension in Parkinson’s disease: Type of embedding and canonicity. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. ISSN 1662-5161. doi: 10.3389/conf.fnhum.2018.228.00074.
• Fyndanis, Valantis & Themistocleous, Charalambos (2019). Morphosyntactic production in agrammatic aphasia: A cross-linguistic machine learning approach. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. ISSN 1662-5161. doi: 10.3389/conf.fnhum.2018.228.00075.
• Fyndanis, Valantis; Cameron, S.; Caplan, D.; Davril, C.; Kaldhol, Nina Hagen & Knoph, Monica I. K. [Show all 10 contributors for this article] (2018). The impact of successive bi-/multilingualism on the cognitive abilities of healthy older speakers: Evidence from Norwegian academics.
• Terzi, Arhonto; Barampati, Eleni & Fyndanis, Valantis (2018). Syntactic comprehension in Parkinson’s disease: Type of embedding and canonicity.
• Fyndanis, Valantis & Themistocleous, Charalambos (2018). Morphosyntactic production in agrammatic aphasia: A cross-linguistic machine learning approach.
• Masoura, E.; Chatziadamou, E.; Dosi, I. & Fyndanis, Valantis (2018). The role of short-term memory, working memory, and inhibition in verb-related morphosyntactic production.
• Fyndanis, Valantis; Lind, Marianne; Balčiūnienė, Ingrida; Bjekić, Jovana; Ceder, Klaudia & Gavarró, Anna [Show all 26 contributors for this article] (2017). Cross-linguistic adaptations of the Comprehensive Aphasia Test.
• Varlokosta, Spyridoula; Efstratiadou, Eva; Wartenburger, Isabell; Burchert, Frank; Killmer, Helene & Chatziantoniou, Lina [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2017). Morphosyntactic production in Greek-German bilingual agrammatic aphasia: A case study.
• Fyndanis, Valantis; Miceli, Gabriele; Semenza, Carlo; Capasso, Rita; Christidou, Paraskevi & De Pellegrin, Serena [Show all 14 contributors for this article] (2017). (Morpho)syntactic production in agrammatic aphasia: Testing three hypotheses within a cross-linguistic approach.
• Fyndanis, Valantis; Themistocleous, Charalambos & Christidou, Paraskevi (2017). Time reference and aspect in agrammatic aphasia: Evidence from Greek.
• Fyndanis, Valantis; Themistocleous, Charalambos & Christidou, Paraskevi (2017). Time reference and aspect in agrammatic aphasia: Evidence from Greek. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. ISSN 1662-5161. doi: 10.3389/conf.fnhum.2017.223.00080.
• Varlokosta, Spyridoula; Stamouli, Spyridoula; Karasimos, Athanasios; Markopoulos, Georgios; Kakavoulia, Maria & Nerantzini, Michaela [Show all 10 contributors for this article] (2016). A Greek corpus of aphasic discourse: Collection, transcription, and annotation specifications.
• Fyndanis, Valantis; Miceli, Gabriele; Semenza, Carlo; Christidou, Paraskevi; Killmer, Helene & Capasso, Rita [Show all 16 contributors for this article] (2016). Time reference in Greek, Italian and German agrammatic aphasia: A test of the PAst DIscource Linking Hypothesis.
• Fyndanis, Valantis; Arfani, Dimitra; Burgio, Francesca; Maculan, Anna; Palla, Fabio & Varlokosta, Spyridoula [Show all 9 contributors for this article] (2016). Morphosyntactic production in Greek and Italian probable Alzheimer’s disease: Evidence from agreement, tense, and mood.
• Fyndanis, Valantis; Arcara, Giorgio; Arfani, Dimitra; Burchert, Frank; Burgio, Francesca & Cagnin, Annachiara [Show all 22 contributors for this article] (2016). Time reference in agrammatic aphasia and probable Alzheimer’s disease: A cross-linguistic test of the PAst DIscourse Linking Hypothesis.
• Rofes, Adria; Zakarias, Lilla; Ceder, Klaudia; Lind, Marianne; Johansson, Monika Blom & Bjekic, Jovana [Show all 22 contributors for this article] (2016). Word imageability from a cross-linguistic perspective. Stem-, spraak- en taalpathologie. ISSN 0924-7025. 21, p. 158–160.
• Rofes, Adria; Zakarias, Lilla; Ceder, Klaudia; Lind, Marianne; Johansson, Monika Blom & Bjekic, Jovana [Show all 22 contributors for this article] (2016). Word imageability from a cross-linguistic perspective.
• Fyndanis, Valantis; Arfani, Dimitra; Burgio, Francesca; Maculan, Anna; Palla, Fabio & Varlokosta, Spyridoula [Show all 9 contributors for this article] (2016). Morphosyntactic production in Greek and Italian probable Alzheimer’s disease: Evidence from agreement, tense, and mood. Stem-, spraak- en taalpathologie. ISSN 0924-7025. 21, p. 3–6.
• Fyndanis, Valantis; Arcara, Giorgio; Arfani, Dimitra; Burchert, Frank; Burgio, Francesca & Cagnin, Annachiara [Show all 22 contributors for this article] (2016). Time reference in agrammatic aphasia and probable Alzheimer’s disease: A cross-linguistic test of the PAst DIscourse LInking Hypothesis. Frontiers in Psychology. ISSN 1664-1078. doi: 10.3389/conf.fpsyg.2016.68.00097.
• Lind, Marianne; Fyndanis, Valantis; Balciuniene, Ingrida; Bjekic, Jovana; Ceder, Klaudia & Gavarró, Anna [Show all 26 contributors for this article] (2016). Cross-linguistic adaptations of The Comprehensive Aphasia Test: Challenges and solutions. Show summary

  Aphasia is characterized by extensive variation in degree and type of language impairment as well as in management strategies and impact on quality of life, both within and across speakers with aphasia and their families (Whitworth, Webster, and Howard, 2014). Thus, aphasia research and rehabilitation is heterogeneous and characterized by language-, region-, and discipline-specific features. Hence, comparison across borders (linguistic, regional or disciplinary) is often difficult or impossible to achieve. A particular obstacle to comparative research on aphasia and aphasia rehabilitation is the lack of comparable assessment tools across different languages. In English, there is a vast array of tools available, while in most other languages, the selection is scarce, and often the tools are not standardized and lack norms. As a first step in meeting the needs for comparable assessment tools across the languages of Europe and thus paving the way for more robust research on aphasia and aphasia rehabilitation, The Comprehensive Aphasia Test (CAT) (Swinburn, Porter, and Howard, 2005) is currently being adapted into 14 European languages belonging to a variety of language families: Basque, Catalan, Croatian, Finnish, French, Greek, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish. This collaborative effort is carried out by members of COST Action IS 1208: "Collaboration of Aphasia Trialists". For each language, local, ideally interdisciplinary, working groups have been established, and the adaptation process is informed by guidelines that have been jointly established and agreed upon. Each language group follows a committee approach in the adaptation (Hambleton, 2005). Following the adaptation, each language version of the CAT will be standardized and normed based on a common set of instructions. The CAT consists of three parts: a cognitive part, a linguistic part, and a disability questionnaire. The test items in the linguistic part of the test battery are selected on the basis of a range of underlying variables, including phonological, semantic (e.g. imageability), syntactic, and usage based (e.g. frequency) ones. A key feature of the adaptation process is to ensure comparability across the various languages on the level of these underlying variables. Several of the languages involved lack the necessary background data on variables such as frequency and imageability. Hence, as part of the adaptation process these data have also been established. In our presentation, we will discuss some of the key challenges of adapting an existing aphasia test battery into several other languages, as well as the solutions we propose to ensure that the resulting assessment tools be linguistically and culturally equivalent.

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